Leadership Development & Learning

Learning can be a key source of competitive advantage, and plays an essential role in executing business strategy. This category looks at the theory and practice of learning and leadership development, how to design effective development, and latest trends in learning. It focuses on the practical application of adult learning theory, and how to connect business, learning and leadership development strategies in practice.

31 May 2019

CRFCast - HR Insights from the Corporate Research Forum: Agile HR: Sky UK Case Study with Tracey Waters

Tracey Waters, Head of People Engagement and Development at Sky UK, discusses how her team have deployed agile development techniques to transform their working methods and increase the business impact of learning and development. Tracey describes four behaviours that underpin Sky’s approach: being collaborative, iterative, data-driven and person-centric. We discuss some practical lessons learned from implementing agile.

  • Tags
  • Agility
  • Capability Building
  • Career Planning
  • Developing Employees
  • Leading Teams
  • Learning and Development
  • Organisation Development
  • Research & Development
  • Risk
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October 25th 2010

Leading from Crises to Collaboration - Sheppard Moscow & Ford Motor Company

This presentation from Sheppard Moscow focuses on leadership as a crucial transformation factor in Ford Motor Company and how the change came about, together with the exploration of Global Executive Leadership (GEL) programme.

  • Tags
  • Collaboration
  • Executive Compensation
  • Leadership
  • Learning and Development
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October 25th 2010

Performance Through People - Budapest Retrospective

CRF's second international conference in Budapest brought together two hundred senior executives, academics and practitioners to explore the theme of performance improvement in the modern organisation.

  • Tags
  • Giving Feedback
  • Leading Teams
  • Managing People
  • Negotiations
  • Performance Management
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October 25th 2010

Putting the individual at the centre of change – GlaxoSmithKline

In this presentation GSK discusses the strategy of changing the individual in an attempt of bringing change to the organisation. The topics of learning and performance are also discussed.

  • Tags
  • Being an HR Director
  • Career Planning
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Developing Employees
  • Giving Feedback
  • Global Strategy
  • HR Models
  • Leading Teams
  • Learning and Development
  • Managing People
  • Negotiations
  • Organisation Development
  • Research & Development
  • Strategic Workforce Planning
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Wellbeing
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October 25th 2010

Web 2.0 - The HR Opportunity - PA Consulting

This brief presentation examines the history of the web and explores how with the change of internet came about the change in our lives and work. It concludes with recommendations for HR Directors.

  • Tags
  • Learning and Development
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